Staff Writer, Brooklyn
The Amnesty International has joined other countries worldwide to issue
a travel warning for travelers and visitors from all over the world to exercise
extreme caution and have the contingency plan when visiting the United States
due to insecurity and mass killings that has killed 31 people in EL Paso, Texas
and Ohio cities.
The statement published in the organization’s website yesterday stated
clearly the travel warning issued is due to ongoing rampant gun violence in the
United States.
This week on Monday, both Venezuela and Uruguay became the first
countries to warn their residents not to travel to the US due to excessive
indiscriminatory violence, specifically hate crimes including racism and
discrimination
The CNN quoted the Uruguay’s Office of
Foreign Ministry issuing an advisory saying citizens should “take precaution
amid the growing “indiscriminate possession of firearms by the population” and
the “impossibility of authorities to prevent these situations,”
Uruguay’s
warning also suggested avoiding the cities of Detroit, Baltimore and
Albuquerque, as they were listed as part of the 20 most dangerous cities in the
world according to the CEO world Magazine 2019 index.
Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry office also
issued a warning to its residents saying Venezuelans should postpone their
travels or exercise caution when travelling as a result of the events in El
Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
The
statement posted by the Foreign Ministry said that the “recent proliferation of
violent acts and hate crimes” need to be considered by those planning to travel
into the US.
“These
increasing acts of violence have found an echo and support in the conversations
and actions impregnated by racial discrimination and hatred against migrant
populations, pronounced and executed by the supremacist elite who holds
political power in Washington," the statement read in part.
The warnings come few days after Tanzania; the East African country had
urged the security agencies in the United States to take all necessary measures
to abolish the killings of innocent people.
The statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African
Cooperation to the press this week stated clearly that the government of
Tanzania is supporting the US in countering barbaric actions that have cost the
lives of people.
This implies that the United States which has been leading in issuing
travel warnings to its citizens not to travel to various countries in the world
due to insecurity, terrorism and killings is no longer the safe place in the
world. One may ask is it normal insecurity or “Invisible assassins” have
flocked the country?
Data from the Center
for Disease Control and Prevention states that nearly 40,000, people died in
firearms injuries the US in 2017. That number was the highest than in any other
year since at least 1968. This link gives you more details
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/us/gun-deaths.html.
Moreover, the Everytown research org.
published in 2019 states that, on average, every
day, 100 Americans are killed with guns and hundreds more are
shot and injured https://everytownresearch.org/gun-violence-america/.
The effects of gun
violence extend far beyond these casualties gun violence shapes the lives of
millions of Americans who witness it, know someone who was shot, or live in
fear of the next shooting.
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